We had a lot of things to talk about this morning. When we
walked into our classroom we had less desks because some of our friends have
moved to the new class taught by Ms. Diduch. Some of our desks got moved around,
and now we have more room to socially distance! Next, we shared some things from
our weekend and sang a happy birthday song to Finn, who had a birthday over the
weekend. We learned that this week is very special because we will be having
Orange Shirt Day on Wednesday. Through our learning about the medicine wheel we
have talked about Indigenous people before, but we watched a quick video that
helped explain what the word Indigenous means and why they are very important
people. We learned that Indigenous means the first people to live on this land.
There are many different groups of Indigenous people: Metis, First Nation (which
has lots of different groups of it's own), and Inuit. Ms. Byrne reminded us of
the Acknowledgement of the Land that we hear sometimes at school. She told us
that we do an Acknowledgement of the Land to show respect for the Indigenous
people who lived, and still live, on this land. We talked about how Indigenous
people lived on this land long before other people came here, and long before
this land was even called Canada. Some of us knew already that when other people
came to this land, some really bad things happened to Indigenous people. Ms.
Byrne told us that this history is a part of why we have Orange Shirt Day - to
show respect and support for Indigenous people. We will be talking more about
the reason we have Orange Shirt Day tomorrow during our morning meeting
(Residential Schools), so we may have some questions and things we want to talk
about with you at home as well.
We filled in our calendar and some of us got to
be helpers at the Smartboard! We moved on to our Star Student time and today we
got to learn all about Ava. We wrote 5 facts about Ava and then took a break for
our first recess and snack time. After recess, we filled in a page about her for
our class book. We practiced drawing her one step at a time so that our pictures
could be our best work!
After lunch, we had some mindfulness time and then
worked on creating patterns using blocks. We each got 3 colours of blocks and
brought them to our desks. Ms. Byrne wrote a pattern rule on the whiteboard (ex:
AB, ABC, AAB) and we created a pattern to match the rule with our blocks. We had
lots of fun creating different patterns!
Before our second recess, we took some
time to talk about the fourth pillar of care - Care for Place. We talked about
how this pillar could be connected to different parts of the medicine wheel, but
we are going to use the Spirit section to represent it. We talked about how
taking care of our space in the classroom, community, and the world is important
and can help us take care of our minds, bodies, and hearts as well. We shared
some ideas for ways that we can show Care for Place. We will finish the last
section of our medicine wheels tomorrow.
When we returned from recess, we took
some time to talk about Terry Fox. We learned a little about Terry and watched a
video of him from when he started his Marathon of Hope. We talked about how
important Terry and his foundation have been in raising money to help find a
cure for cancer. Ms. Byrne told us that Terry Fox is a very important person to
her, because Ms. Byrne's dad had the same type of cancer as Terry Fox when she
was little. Luckily, because of all the new ways we have to help people who have
cancer, her dad was able to get better! We each got a big sticker to take home
today. Please talk to us about anyone in our family or a friend who may have had
cancer. We can write their name on our sticker together and bring it back to
school tomorrow to wear on our shirts during the Terry Fox Run. If we don't have
anyone in our life who has had cancer, we can write Terry Fox on the sticker
instead to show our support. Remember to send the sticker back tomorrow so we
can wear it during our run!
Reminders:
- Sept. 28 - Terry Fox Run - You can submit any donations here:
- Sept. 29 - Orange Shirt Day
- Sept. 30 - No School - Day of Truth and Reconcilation
Have a great day!
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